NEWS AND NOTES.
It is reported that a disease affecting lemon trees in the Marlborough district is causing serious loss of both fruit and foliage. Californian quail are a great pest in settlements on the upper reaches of the Auckland Harbour at present. It is stated that successive sowings of seeds in vegetable gardens have been ruined by them and considerable loss is being incurred by strawberry growers owing to quail nipping off berries as soon as the fruiti is formed. The definition of the ideal woman, as portrayed in the last chapter of Proverbs, has one clause that seems to fit exactly with the position of the dairy farmer’s wife, since the institution of Daylight Saving. It will be found .in the 15th verse, and runs: “She rises while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to hex maidens. The chapter is divided into 31 verses, equalling the days in the longest calendar moitth, and any girl can pick out a suitable motto for herself by approximating (and endeavouring to live up to) the verse corresponding to the dato of her birthday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3718, 17 November 1927, Page 1
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189NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3718, 17 November 1927, Page 1
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